The police department released an Illinois Department of Transportation report this week detailing traffic-stop data in a city grappling with racial tensions. It comes after the city council's traffic-stop data task force finished its research at the end of 2015, finding that black drivers are stopped disproportionately more than drivers of other races. The new report brings similar results.

The number of pedestrians, cyclists and drivers killed in L.A. traffic rose sharply in 2016

raffic deaths in Los Angeles rose sharply despite a high-profile campaign by Mayor Eric Garcetti and other city leaders to eliminate fatal traffic crashes. In 2016, the first full year that Garcetti’s Vision Zero policy was in effect in L.A., 260 people were killed in traffic crashes on city streets, an increase of almost 43% over the previous year.